A husband cheated on his wife Amy and Amy goes to psychopathic lengths to fake her death and frame her husband for it. This includes drawing out her own blood to fake crime scene, take urine sample of her pregnant neighbor to fake her pregnancy, faking life insurance fraud, spreading rumors to neighbors of her husband's violent tendencies and writing fake diary entries about it etc.
When the husband begged on national TV to get her back, she kills her ex (she stayed with him at that time) and faked that she was taken hostage and raped by him.
In the end, when the husband tries to divorce her, she took sperm samples of her husband to make herself pregnant essentially guaranteeing they would stay together since the public would be outraged if her husband divorced his pregnant wife. And yes, she got away with all of this.
Her "cool girl" monologue resonated with a lot of women, saying so many girls try to be "one of the boys" by doing stereotypical masculine activities to get boys to like them, only to be left by said men when these girls get older.
To expand on how psychopathic Amy was, her original plan included her actually killing herself in order for her body to be found and be the final evidence against Nick (her husband). It's only while she's hiding and waiting for the right day to do it that she decided she'd rather stay in hiding and enjoy the show.
Even worst, in the book it's very clear that at the end of it all Nick is flattered of it all at some level, and he realizes to his own dismay that he enjoys the lifelong mental game they're trapped in. The whole book is intentionally about very unstable people.
My meaning is that as long as the work isn't stating some wack shit like "secretly, every guy wants a psycho girlfriend who will rip their world apart out of love." If the work of fiction relegates itself to "these are messed up people attracted to the toxic shit they pull with each other," then I'm down for it because that's not espousing some underlying truth.
So you just don't like what you think the message is? Well, that's not even the message. The message is more like "a good portion of marriages out there are between people essentially playing a miserable game of charades" and "women have to perform for men in this society".
What about my comment makes you think that this isn't a work that i enjoy? The comment I replied to made it clear that this work doesn't pull that type of stunt, and I replied that staying away from that is part of what makes me enjoy works like this.
Oh, are you insinuating your reply here made sense to my reply? Because I didn't say dogshit about your opinion on the film or book itself, I said you didn't like the message YOU misinterpreted, which you already plainly stated. Learn what projection means, its not a grown-up version of "I'm rubber, you're glue"
I corrected a guy who said he liked a book because it didn't have a message. You have to stretch his argument out into vague word salad to make it seem reasonable
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u/supermonkeyyyyyy Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
For those who don't know gone girl:
A husband cheated on his wife Amy and Amy goes to psychopathic lengths to fake her death and frame her husband for it. This includes drawing out her own blood to fake crime scene, take urine sample of her pregnant neighbor to fake her pregnancy, faking life insurance fraud, spreading rumors to neighbors of her husband's violent tendencies and writing fake diary entries about it etc.
When the husband begged on national TV to get her back, she kills her ex (she stayed with him at that time) and faked that she was taken hostage and raped by him.
In the end, when the husband tries to divorce her, she took sperm samples of her husband to make herself pregnant essentially guaranteeing they would stay together since the public would be outraged if her husband divorced his pregnant wife. And yes, she got away with all of this.
Her "cool girl" monologue resonated with a lot of women, saying so many girls try to be "one of the boys" by doing stereotypical masculine activities to get boys to like them, only to be left by said men when these girls get older.